It appears to be time to move to South Dakota, Nevada, or Hawaii, the only three states in the union to show a reduction in their unemployment since the recession began. (Each of 0.3%, or 3 people in 1,000)

Of course, if we all move to those states--or even a few thousand of us--that gain will go away.

In fairness, Montana and Delaware, as well as the District of Columbia, appear to be neutral. But is it really encouraging that there are government jobs?

How A Supreme Court Justice Treats the Law: cite example from before the law in question was passed, as if they are precedents and not precisely the behavior the law was intended to address.

Pull Quote:

"He noted that, although Scalia wrote that his conduct was consistent with friendships such as those between Justice Byron R. White and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and between Justice Robert H. Jackson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which did not lead to calls for recusal, those cases took place before the enactment of the federal law on judicial recusal. That statute, cited by the Sierra Club as the basis of its motion, requires judges to recuse when their impartiality might 'reasonably be questioned.'"

Monday, March 15, 2004

If they had said this years ago, would we not be having all the fooforah now?

Pull Quote:

"So the economics of sex evolved into a win-win deal. Women agreed to give men exclusive sexual rights and guaranteed paternity in exchange for their sexual loyalty and enduring assistance with childbearing and -rearing. The man's promise of sexual loyalty meant that he would expend his labor and resources supporting her children, not another woman's." [emphasis mine]

So divorce can be blamed on The Pill as well, and all those divorces and trophy wives of the pre-Djerassi years are (a rather large) outlier in the database?

Thursday, March 11, 2004

"As many of these ‘virgins’ had not been attentive during sex education classes (or had not had them) they tend to have sex without protection more often than other kids....Researchers also found that these kids were less likely to seek medical help when they did catch a STD – probably because they did not know what they had."

I guess the motto has to change to "Abstinence Works--Except When It Doesn't."

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

MSNBC's Misleading headline of the day...the statement might have been true prior to 1991.

The REAL pull quote: "The scientists presented their paper Monday to the conference, declaring that most Iraqi nuclear facilities were damaged or destroyed in the 1991 U.S.-led Gulf war. They said scientists, engineers and technicians involved in the program dispersed after the war and the program was dismantled on Saddam’s orders." [emphasis mine]

Yep, the man was really trying to build a bomb and attack the U.K. and the U.S. Uh-huh.

I was amazed to score a 66 on this. On the other hand, I forwarded it to (among others) sixpeople who scored below 20.

One commented that the test "portrays libertarians as whiners who if they had the courage would be waving black flags with an A surrounded by a circle." Having visited freerepublic.com several times recently, I'm trying to figure out what might be wrong with that portrayal.